LEGALINFO

LEGAL INFORMATION SOURCES

Circuit Courts	Legal Guides
Citation Manuals	Legal Information Questions
District Court Case Law	Legal Search Engines/ Indexes
Federal Case Law	Meta Indexes/Directories
Federal Circuit Court Case Law	Secondary Sources
Legal Dictionaries	State Case Law
Legal Directories	Supreme Court Decisions
Legal Encyclopedias	Topical Law Information

Legal Guides

1.   Lawyers Cooperative - West Group - http://www.lcp.com/

2.    The Argus Clearinghouse for Subject Oriented Internet Resource Guides -
        Government and Law -

http://www.clearinghouse.net/cgi-bin/chadmin/viewcat/Government___Law?kywd++

3.    Federal Regulations - Library Guide Series -
       http://www.clark.net/pub/lschank/web/fedregs.html

Law and Legal Rsources - http://www.clark.net/pub/lschank/web/law.html

Legal and Law Reference - http://www.clark.net/pub/lschank/web/mu-law.html

Federal Regulations - Mirror Site - http://www.mnsfld.edu/depts/lib/fedregs.html

4.    LEGI-SLATE Digital Intelligence on Legislation and Regulations -
       LEGI-SLATE Inside The Capitol -
        http://www.legislate.com/gov101/

Guide to the Regulatory Process - http://legiweb.legislate.com/d/ddregpr1.htm

Guide to the Federal Register - http://legiweb.legislate.com/d/ddfr.htm

Guide to the Code of Federal Regulations - http://legiweb.legislate.com/d/ddcfr.htm

Glossary of Congressional and Regulatory Terms: A-L - http://legiweb.legislate.com/z/dzgloss1.htm

Glossary of Congressional and Regulatory Terms: M-Z - http://legiweb.legislate.com/z/dzgloss2.htm

5.    Federal Regulations - Cornell University School of Law Legal Information
       Institute -
       http://www.law.cornell.edu/library/fedregs1.html#toc

6.    Federal Regulatory Information:Full-Text, Agency and Background Resources
       Available Via the Internet -
       http://www.lib.lfc.edu/federalregs/regshome.html

Full-Text Sources of Federal Regulations - http://www.lib.lfc.edu/federalregs/fulltext.html

Alphabetical List of Agencies - http://www.lib.lfc.edu/federalregs/alphlist.html

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Legal Search Engines/Indexes

1.    LawCrawler - http://www.lawcrawler.com

2.    FindLaw - http://www.findlaw.com/

3.    CataLaw - http://www.catalaw.com/

4.    LawRunner - http://www.lawrunner.com/

5.    Internet Legal Resources Index - http://www.ilrg.com/

6.    Hieros Gamos - http://www.hg.org/

7.    Project Argonauts - http://rampages.onramp.net/~smcgarry/argonaut/argo.htm

8.    The Law Engine - http://www.fastsearch.com/law/index.html

9.    The Law Guru - http://www.lawguru.com/

10.    The New Jersey Law Network - http://njlawnet.com/general.html

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Meta Indexes/Directories

1.    Georgia State University Legal Research Meta-Index -
       http://gsulaw.gsu.edu/metaindex/

2.    The Legal Web Locator at Villanova University -
        http://www.law.vill.edu/vcilp/legalweb.html

3.    Emory Law Library Electronic Reference Desk -
        http://www.law.emory.edu/LAW/refdesk/toc.html

4.    World Wide Web Virtual Library: Law -
        http://www.law.indiana.edu/law/v-lib/lawindex.html

5.    Legal Information Institute at Cornell University -
       http://www.law.cornell.edu:80/

Legal Information Institute - Materials - Organized by Topic - http://www.law.cornell.edu:80/topical.html

Legal Information Institute - Materials Organized by Source of Law - http://www.law.cornell.edu:80/source.html

6.    Washlaw WWW - Washburn University School of Law - http://www.washlaw.edu/

        REFLAW WWW - Washburn University School of Law - http://www.washlaw.edu/reflaw/

7.    Law News Network - http://www.lawnewsnetwork.com/

8.     Law News Network - Tech Law Center -
      http://www.lawnewsnetwork.com/practice/techlaw/links/index.html

9.   Dorsai Government Links - http://www.dorsai.org/links/gov.html

10.   Master Index to Canadian Legal Resources - http://gahtan.com/lawlinks/

11.   Meta-Index for Legal Research -Univerity of Texas at Austin - Hook-Em -
        http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/hook-em/hook-em.htm

12.   Practicing Attorney's Home Page - http://www.legalethics.com/pa/main.html

13.   Georgetown University Legal Explorer - http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/

14.   re-Quest.net - http://www.re-Quest.net/government/law/law-index.htm

15.   National Law Net - http://www.lawsites.com/

16.   LibClient - http://ils.unc.edu/~vreer/libclient/LIBClient.html

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Federal Case Law

The Internet offers electronic access to federal case law from both the United States Supreme Court and Circuit Courts. These pages provide links to federal and state case law

1.    Findlaw Index of Legal Resources - http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/

2.    Washlaw Web - Federal Case Law - http://www.washlaw.edu/searchlaw.html#Federal Caselaw

       Indexes and offers full text searching for all federal case law that exists on the
       Internet

3.    WashLaw - Judicial Branch -
        http:/www.washlaw.edu/

4.    Federal Court Locator - http://www.vcilp.org/Fed-Ct/fedcourt.html

Villanova Univ. Center for Information Law and Policy - http://www.vcilp.org

5.    Georgetown Univ. Legal Explorer - http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/

Federal Court Opinions - http://www.ll.georgetown.edu:80/Fed-Ct/

6.    Practicing Attorney's Home Page Courts and Caselaw -
        http://www.legalethics.com/pa/courts.htm

7.    Federal Courts Finder/ U.S. Federal Courts Finder - Emory University Law
        School -   http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDCTS

8.    Federal Courts Homepage - http://www.mindspring.com/~mdunn/

9.    ALSO - American Law Sources Online - http://www.lawsource.com/also/

United States Federal Government - http://www.lawsource.com/also/usa.cgi?us1

10.    Courts.net - http://www.courts.net/

http://www.courts.net/index.html

Supreme Court Case Law, Court, and Justice Information

1.    Supreme Court Justices - http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/fullcourt.html

http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/fullcourt.html

2.    About The Court USSC PLUS - The U. S. Supreme Court -
        http://www.usscplus.com/info/index.htm
        A worldwide web version of an information booklet written by the Court. It
        contains an introduction to the Court's history and practices, and biographies of
        the Justices.

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Supreme Court Decisions

1.    Historic Supreme Court Decisions By Party Name - Cornell Univ. Law School -
       Legal Information Institute - http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/
     http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/cases/name.htm

2.    Legal Information Institute at Cornell Univ. - http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/
       Recent Supreme Court Cases

3.    Supreme Court Decisions via GPO Access -
       http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/supcrt/
       (Cases Decided between 1937 and 1975)

4.    Fedworld/FLITE Database (Supreme (Court Decisions between 1937 and 1975) -
       http://www.fedworld.gov/supcourt/index.htm

http://www.vcilp.org/Fed-Ct/sct.html#flite
The Fedworld/FLITE database file consists of over 7000 Supreme Court opinions dating from 1937 through 1975, from volumes 300 through 422 of U.S. Reports.

5.    Findlaw (Supreme Court Decisions -
       http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html
       Supreme Court case law from 1937 to the present

6.    USSC PLUS Online -   http://www.usscplus.com/online/index.htm

http://www.usscplus.com/

        (Leading Supreme Court cases from 1793 - 1966; Comprehensive coverage 1966
        - 1996)

The U. S. Supreme Court - http://www.usscplus.com/info/index.htm

A worldwide web version of an information booklet written by the Court. It contains an introduction to the Court's history and practices, and biographies of the Justices.

7.    Supreme Court Opinions - Law Journal Extra -
       http://www.ljextra.com/cgi-bin/ussc
       The Law Journal Extra database provides searchable database of opinions from
        the Supreme Court since the 1994 Court to the present.

8.    Villanova Univ. VCILP - Supreme Court Database -
        http://www.law.vill.edu/fed-ct/sct.html
        7,400 Descisions of the FLITE Database Sorted by U.S. Reports Volume
        Number.

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Federal Circuit Court Case Law - WWW Addresses for Circuit Court Cases - Sites for Searching Federal Case Law

1.    Legal Information Institute - Circuit Court Search Page -
       http://supct.law.cornell.edu/Harvest/brokers/circuit-x/fancy.query.html
       Search all US Circuit Court of Appeals opinions on the Internet

2.    Law Journal Extra -U. S. Circuit Courts -
       http://www.ljextra.com/courthouse/feddec.html

Search All Circuit Courts - http://www.ljextra.com/cgi-bin/cir

Search the Federal Courts - http://search.ljx.com

U. S. Circuit Court Case Law Recent Decisions For Each Circuit - http://www.ljx.com/courthouse/feddec.html

3.    Federal Court Locator - http://www.vcilp.org/Fed-Ct/fedcourt.html

Villanova Univ. Center for Information Law and Policy - http://www.vcilp.org

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Circuit Courts

Federal Circuit
1.    Federal Circuit Court of Appeals - http://www.law.emory.edu/fedcircuit/
       Emory University School of Law

2.    United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit -
        http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/Fed-Ct/cafed.html

3.    American Law Sources Online - http://www.lawsource.com/also

4.    First Circuit - First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals -
        http://www.law.emory.edu/1circuit/
       Emory University School of Law

5.    Second Circuit - Second United States Circuit Court of Appeals -
        http://tourolaw.edu/2ndCircuit/
       Touro Law Center - http://tourolaw.edu/

       Pace University School of Law -
       http://www.law.pace.edu/lawlib/legal/us-legal/judiciary/second-circuit.html

6.    Third Circuit - Third United States Circuit Court of Appeals -
       http://www.law.vill.edu/Fed-Ct/ca03.html
        Villanova University Center for Information Law and Policy

7.    Fourth Circuit - Fourth United States Circuit Court of Appeals -
       http://www.law.emory.edu/4circuit/
       Emory Law School

8.    Fifth Circuit - Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals -
       http://www.law.utexas.edu/us5th/us5th.html
       Univ. Of Texas at Austin School of Law

9.    Sixth Circuit - Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals -
       http://www.law.emory.edu/6circuit/
       Emory School of Law Web

10. Seventh Circuit - Seventh United States Circuit Court of Appeals -
       Chicago-Kent College of Law - http://www.kentlaw.edu/7circuit/

11.   Eighth Circuit - Eighth United States Circuit Court of Appeals -
        http://www.wulaw.wustl.edu/8th.cir/
        Law Journal Extra Press - http://www.ljextra.com/public/daily/XD8ca.html

12.   Ninth Circuit - Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals -
        http://www.law.vill.edu/Fed-Ct/ca09.html
        Villanova University Center for Information Law and Policy

13.   Tenth Circuit - Tenth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals - Washburn University -
        http://www.washlaw.edu/searchlaw.html#10th Circuit

14.   Eleventh Circuit - Eleventh United States Circuit Court of Appeals -
        http://www.law.emory.edu/11circuit/
        Emory Law School
        Eleventh Circuit Published Opinions -
        http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions.htm

15.   District of Columbia - District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals -
        http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/Fed-Ct/cadc.html
        Georgetown University Law Center Library

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Federal District Court Case Law

1.    Federal District Court Civil Trials -
       http://teddy.law.cornell.edu:8090/questcv2.htm

2.    U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi -
       http://sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu/~llibcoll/ndms
       University of Mississippi School of Law Library

3.    District Court of South Carolina - University of South Carolina -
        http://www.law.sc.edu/dsc/dsc.htm

4.    The Massachusetts Bankruptcy Page -
        http://prospex.com/craig-macauley/bankruptcy.html

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STATE CASE LAW - State Multi-Court Sites

1.    ALSO - American Law Sources Online - http://www.lawsource.com/also/usa.htm

United States Federal Government - http://www.lawsource.com/also/usa.cgi?us1

2.    Courts.net - http://www.courts.net/

http://www.courts.net/index.html

3.    FindLaw - State Resources - http://www.findlaw.com/11stategov/

LawCrawler - Index of Legal Resources - http://www.lawcrawler.com/

4.    GeorgeTown Legal Explorer - http://www.ll.georgetown.edu:80/lr/lg/state.html

5.    WashLawWEB - State Case Law - http://www.washlaw.edu/searchlaw.html#State Caselaw

6.    State Courts Judicial Opinions - Legal Information Institute -
       http://www.law.cornell.edu/opinions.html

7.    State Court Locator - VCILP - http://www.law.vill.ekdu/State-Ct/index.html

8.    State Cases - Practicing Attorney's Home Page -
       http://www.legalethics.com/pa/states/states.htm

9.    Hieros Gamos - http://www.hg.org/usstates.html

10.    Substantive Law on the World Wide Web -
         http://www.mother.com/~randy/law.html

11.    The Courthouse - Law Journal Extra -
          http://www.ljextra.com/courthouse/statelinks.html

http://www.ljextra.com/courthouse/states.html

http://www.ljextra.com/courthouse/

12.    Court Web Sites - National Center for State Courts -
          http://ncsc.dni.us/court/sites/courts.htm

Texas State Cases
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals   - http://www.cca.courts.state.tx.us/

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SECONDARY SOURCES

Sources that provide evaluation and analysis of the primary law are secondary sources. They provide textual treatment and discussion of the official text of cases, laws, and rules or regulations. Secondary tools include; legal citation and style manuals, encyclopedias, dictionaries or wordbooks, treatises and textbooks, directories, legal periodicals and newspapers, and law reviews.

Citation Manuals
1.    Basic Legal Citation (1997-1998) -
        http://www.law.cornell.edu/citation/citation.table.html
        Legal Information Institute -(Based on the BlueBook 16th edition)

2.    Uncle Sam - Brief Guide to Citing Government Publications - Government
        Publications Department - University of Memphis -
        http://www.lib.memphis.edu/gpo/citeweb.htm
        (Based on the Chicago/Turabian style)

Legal Dictionaries
1.    American Standard Law Dictionary Electronic Legal Source -
       http://www.e-legal.com/resources/dict/main.html

2. Black's Law Dictionary, 6thedition -
http://www.alaska.net/~winter/black_law_dictionary.html

3.    DivorceNet - Annotated Divorce Law Dictionary Family Law Advisor Home
        Page -   http://www.divorcenet.com/dictionary.html
        The highly annotated and entertaining dictionary from the Tao of Divorce

4.    Glossary of Terms - Understanding the Federal Courts - World Wide Legal
        Information Association -   International Legal Dictionary -
        http://www.islandnet.com/~wwlia/diction.htm

5.     Understanding the Federal Courts - Glossary -
         http://www.uscourts.gov/understanding_courts/gloss.htm

Understanding the Federal Courts -   http://www.uscourts.gov/understanding_courts/899_toc.htm

6.    Lawcopedia Lectric Legal Lexicon - http://www.lectlaw.com/ref.html

Lectric Law LookerUp -   http://www.lectlaw.com/search.html

Legal Directories
Legal directories are one of the most used legal and government information resources on the Internet by all types of users; attorneys, law students and professors, government administrators, judges, business persons, and ordinary citizens. There are a variety of directory resources that provide directory and biographical information about individual attorneys or law firms, legal experts, professors, government officers, corporate attorneys, legal aid or assistance organizations, and elected officials. The most used published legal directory is the Martindale Hubbell Law Directory.

1.    West Legal Directory - http://www.wld.com/

2.    Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Locator -
       http://www.martindale.com/locator/home.html

3.    Legal Information Institute Directory of Lawyers -
       http://www.law.cornell.edu/focus/lawyers.html

4.    Law Firms OnLine - http://www.ljx.com/firms/lfonline.html

http://www.ljx.com/firms/lfonline.html#firms

Complete List of Law Firms -   http://www.ljx.com/firms/firms.htm

Law Firm Finder - http://www.ljx.com/firms/firmfinder.html

Large Law Firm Index -   http://www.ljextra.com/lf250/nlj250index.html

Search for a Law Firm by Practice Area -   http://www.ljx.com/firms/specialty.html

5.    experts.com - http://www.experts.com

6.    The Expert's Page Seamless WEBsite Expert Directory -
        http://seamless.com/shingle.html#expert

7.    Expert Witnesses - http://witness.net/

8.    Law Schools and Law-Related Academic Programs -
       http://www.lawsch.uga.edu/legalwww/lschoola.html

9. American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar -
       1996-97 ABA Approved Law Schools -   http://www.abanet.org/legaled/approved.html

10.   Association of American Law Schools (AASL) Member Schools -
        http://www.aals.org/members.html

11.   Directory of Law Schools - University of Southern California Law School
        and Law Library -   http://www.usc.edu/dept/law-lib/librarys/locators.html

12. Hieros Gamos - Every Law School on the Planet -
       http://www.hg.org/schools.html

North American Accredited Law Schools - http://www.hg.org/northam-schools.html
Law Schools - Latin America Law Schools - Europe - http://www.hg.org/euro-schools.html
Law Schools - Latin America - http://www.hg.org/latinam-schools.html

Law Schools - Asia/Pacific - http://www.hg.org/asiapacific-schools.html

Law Schools - Africa/Middle East -   http://www.hg.org/africamideast-schools.html

13. University of Kansas Law School’s United States Law School Home Pages List
         http://www.law.ukans.edu/library/usschools.html

14. JURIST: Law Professors on the Web - http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/

Legal Encyclopedias
1.    'Lectric Law Library - Legal Topic Area - http://www.lectlaw.com/ref.html

Lawcopedia - http://www.lectlaw.com//ref.html

Lectric Law LookerUp -   http://www.lectlaw.com/search.html

Topical Law Information
1.   FindLaw - Subject Indexes of Legal Resources -
      http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/index.html

2.   Focal Points - Emory University School of Law -
      http://www.law.emory.edu/FOCAL

LEGAL INFORMATION QUESTIONS

Use Findlaw, the Federal Court Locator, or the Supreme Court Flite Database. Find the necessary information about the Supreme Court ruling that set the base offense level concerning the weight of a pure dose of the hallucinogenic drug - LSD and the weight of the carrier.

http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html

http://www.fedworld.gov/supcourt/index.htm

http://www.vcilp.org/Fed-Ct/sct.html#flite

http://www.vcilp.org/Fed-Ct/fedcourt.html

        a.     What is the name of the case?

        b.    What were the facts of the case?

        c.    How is the carrier for LSD produced? What are they called?
Can you find the case concerning the environmental protection of the spotted owl
against the government?

http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html

http://www.fedworld.gov/supcourt/index.htm

http://www.vcilp.org/Fed-Ct/sct.html#flite

http://www.vcilp.org/Fed-Ct/fedcourt.html

a. What is the name of the case?

b. What is the docket number?
Where did Justice Souter go to college and law school? What about Justice Scalia? Use Yahoo to find the biographical information on the justices.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/fullcourt.html

http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/fullcourt.html

Where did Justice Ginsburg go to college and law school?

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/fullcourt.html

http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/justices/fullcourt.html
Go to the 5th Circuit cases and find the name of the case concerning Diane Sawyer and the minister in Farmers Branch. http://www.law.utexas.edu/us5th/us5th.html

a. What is the name of the case?

b. What were the facts of the case?
Look for a Kansas case concerning a wrongful death action brought against a public university questioning the responsibility of the school for security at an event.

http://www.kscourts.org/kscases/

        Is the University liable for the death?

        Who are the parties in the case?

        What are the facts of the case?
Go to Black's Law Dictionary, what is common knowledge? What case is cited to define this term? What is the full name and citation for the case?

http://www.alaska.net/~winter/black_law_dictionary.html
Use West Legal Directory or the Martindale Hubbell, find the following attorneys:

http://www.lawoffice.com/direct/direct.asp

http://www.martindale.com/locator/home.html

       Who is Gerry Spence? What is his most famous case? What is the name of his firm and
        where is it? Which one of the directories, Martindale or West Legal Directory will give you
        all of this information?

           O.J. mania!!! Find an attorney in Los Angeles named Carl Douglas. What is the name of
            his firm and when was it founded? What are the firm's major practice groups. Where was
            he educated?
Go to the 'lectric Law Library and use the Legal Lexicon

http://lectlaw.com/ref.html

       a.    What does knights of the shire mean?

         b.    What is the definition of privlegium Fori?

        c.    Look at the Eclectic 'Lectric Law Review and find the will of Jerry Garcia. Who did he
               leave his guitairs?

http://www.lectlaw.com/llr.htm
Use one of the topical indexes to legal information. Can you find any information on either your legislative history topic or agency report?

FindLaw - Subject Indexes of Legal Resources - http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/index.html

Focal Points - Emory University School of Law - http://www.law.emory.edu/FOCAL